Mailing-List: contact dev-help@community.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@community.apache.org
Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy)
Message-ID: <5422DF19.10207@rcbowen.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:11:21 -0400
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
 rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: ApacheCon Austin keynotes
References: <5422C079.20004@rcbowen.com>
 <CAK2iWdSBgXo-uUiUe4TbFTzADFPD=6wZABBwXh9iLCkC49A5Gg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: 
 <CAK2iWdSBgXo-uUiUe4TbFTzADFPD=6wZABBwXh9iLCkC49A5Gg@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


On 09/24/2014 10:56 AM, jan i wrote:
> Another little thought. How about trying to get the original team (as many
> as possible) to talk about that release, how is was, how it felt etc...do
> it on video, and edit it all into a keynote with one (or more) commentators.
Brian has agreed to reach out to the original team and get as many of 
them as possible to attend. However, I do *not* want to do a panel 
session of people reminiscing. Allow me to share my thoughts on this.

ApacheCon is about the ASF, and we want to be constantly preaching the 
message that ASF != httpd. Brian is a visionary, and does great things 
in the world at large, and I want him to talk about a bigger picture 
than just old memories. The old memories will be part of it, but the 
message is that we are now 200 projects, and what we've learned getting 
from there to here.

I'm concerned that having the "old guys reminiscing" talk will detract 
from that larger message, as well as reinforce the message that the ASF 
is mired in the past - something that we're actively fighting in our 
messaging.

Now, it would be cool to have that as a session, in the httpd track. But 
not as a keynote. I hope you see my thinking on this.

Although ... the idea of getting brief video clips of each of the 
founders and making a *short* vignette to show at the beginning of the 
keynote might be kind of awesome. Some of the are kind of hard to find 
these days, but most of them are reachable.

--Rich

-- 
Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon